What is your Favourite Christmas Carol?

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I like the three ships one.

I’m atheist too, but the English choral tradition is sublime. The sheer kitsch of Christmas carol services can’t be beaten.

In the Bleak Midwinter. Due to this carol I am now with my husband so it has a very special meaning.

I also love Oh Come, Oh Come Emanuel.

Film? Muppets, clearly.

Songs? O Holy Night as sung by a Welsh male voice choir, and God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen as sung by John Finnemore.

In the bleak midwinter. Beautiful music, gorgeous words.

O Holy Night

Oh Holy Night. I get weepy hearing it sometimes (especially if on the Sherry).

Oh Come All Ye Faithfull
Once in Royal David's City
Hark The Herald Angels

In fact I love most carols - as a pp said they make me cry because they bring back childhood memories

In the bleak midwinter

The first noel.
Dh says Adeste Fideles in Latin!

Shepherds, in the Field Abiding
And pretty much all other carols.
Love a local carol concert

Faithful not Faithfull 😬
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem too

God rest ye merry gentleman

I like the muppets

That's a good one yes.

I'm going to have to look at Carol of the bells

Another classic

So many good ones I forget until I hear them

Another vote for Jesus Christ The Apple Tree.

Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem
In The Bleak Mid Winter

I love m most carols, actually!

Ahhh I know Carol of the bells now.

Are you sure you're not moving up the message with Good King Wenceslas? As there is no nobleman in In the Bleak Midwinter?

In Dulci Jubilo, in 8 parts.

Three Kings from Persian lands afar.

I love the holly and the ivy when sung by a proper choir - it just evokes that proper Christmas feeling for me.

As a total change of pace, one of the most "beautiful" carols for me is Johnny Cash, in old age, singing The little Drummer Boy. Thankfully without the awful " dum de dum" bit. I find it so emotional, it's banned from our home now.

I agree. It's one of the few times I like choirs

In the Bleak Midwinter - but there's 2 versions and I only like one of them.

I'd really like to make it to church this year. I live midnight mass. When I was wee I dreamed of being old enough to go to midnight mass. Ds is 7 going on 8 and I'm debating it. Silent night and In The Bleak Mid Winter make me cry. I sniffle like a right fool at Christmas mass.